CHIEF REGISTERED ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SPECIALIST, PUBLIC HEALTH
Career Family: CHIEF
Eligible list issuedExam status, as of November 4, 2026. We hold no currently open examination announcement for this title. The most recent announcement we hold was an open competitive examination for Passaic (symbol M0964H), which closed September 21, 2026. The eligible list from that examination was promulgated October 22, 2026. Exam schedule
Eligible lists, as of November 4, 2026. An eligible list is in force. The newest, for Passaic, was promulgated October 22, 2026 and expires October 21, 2028, 1 name as issued. See the lists
Provisional hiring can precede the examination. See the provisional route
Rules that apply to this title
A guide to the rules, not legal advice.
To land Chief Registered Environmental Health Specialist, Public Health in New Jersey you go through the competitive route: you sit an announced exam and the score puts you on the eligible list agencies hire from.
The one gate is a professional license.
How to apply
This title is filled by competitive examination.
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Previously announced, and no longer listed by the Commission
The Commission removes an announcement once it has closed and republishes nothing, so these 2 examinations are no longer on any of its own lists. We keep what we have read, here covering 2026. None of them can be filed for now; a title announced once is often announced again, so this is the record of whether that has happened.
| Title | Symbol | State or local, and unit | Closed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chief Registered Environmental Health Specialist Public HealthOpen competitive | M0964H | LocalPassaic | September 21, 2026 |
| Chief Registered Environmental Health Specialist Public HealthOpen competitive | M0916H | LocalAtlantic City | September 21, 2026 |
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Eligible lists for this title
An eligible list ranks the people who passed an examination, and appointments are made from it until it expires. One list for this title is on record, 1 still in force.
| State or local | Kind and symbol | Promulgated | Expires | On the list |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LocalPassaic | Open competitiveM0964H | October 22, 2026 | October 21, 2028 | 1 |
Read from the Civil Service Commission's eligible list site, which we have read since October 24, 2026. The Commission posts each list for three months after it is issued and we keep it after that. The count is the list as issued, before appointments, removals or appeals change it. This site shows list-level facts only.
Where this title is used
Chief Registered Environmental Health Specialist, Public Health is a local service title. It is filled by the counties, municipalities, authorities and other employers that have adopted civil service under Title 11A, not by State departments. Those employers set pay by ordinance or contract rather than from a State salary schedule, which is why most local titles carry no salary range here.
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Official job specification
The text below is the official specification published by the New Jersey Civil Service Commission. The plain-language summary and analysis above are derived from it by NJ Civil Service Navigator. Source: the official specification page at NJ CSC.
Examples of work
- Manages and takes responsibility for corrective action when violations of relevant sanitary, environmental, and public health laws, rules, and ordinances are found.
- Manages and works with a group of Registered Environmental Health Specialists engaged in conducting inspections of retail food establishments and other eating places and in investigating nuisances and violations of relevant sanitary, environmental, and public health laws, rules, and ordinances.
- Confers with Health Officer, engineers, veterinarians, and Registered Environmental Health Specialists concerning improvements in public health and santiation.
- Give testimony in court cases.
- Prepares reports on inspection activity.
- Manages work operations and/or functional programs, and has responsibility for employee evaluation and for effectively recommending the hiring, firing, promoting, demoting and/or disciplining of employees.
- May respond to emergency situations.
- Supervises the establishment and maintenance of records and files.
- Performs other duties or special projects as required or as assigned.
- Will be required to learn to utilize various types of electronic and/or manual recording and information systems used by the agency, office, or related units.
- <b>REQUIREMENTS
- EXPERIENCE:</b>
- Six (6) years of experience in performing the duties incumbent upon a Registered Environmental Health Specialist in the enforcement of relevant sanitary, environmental, and public health laws, rules, and ordinances.
License
Possession of an active Registered Environmental Health Specialist License issued by the NJ Department of Health and Senior Services.
Appointees will be required to possess a driver's license valid in New Jersey only if the operation of a vehicle, rather than employee mobility, is necessary to perform essential duties of the position.
Knowledge, skills and abilities
- Knowledge of problems and procedures of the work of a Registered Environmental Health Specialist for the enforcement of relevant sanitary, environmental, and public health laws, rules, and ordinances.
- Ability to manage and work with a group of Registered Environmental Health Specialists engaged in conducting inspections of retail food establishments and other eating places and in investigating nuisances and violations of relevant sanitary, environmental, and public health laws, rules, and ordinances.
- Ability to assess environmental health risks and their influences on humans and the environment.
- Ability to analyze sanitary, environmental, and public health problems.
- Ability to organize assigned supervisory and other work and to develop effective work methods.
- Ability to develop a work program and work procedures for a group of Registered Environmental Health Specialists.
- Ability to assign and instruct employees in the duties and responsibilities incumbent upon a Registered Environmental Health Specialist.
- Ability to interpret relevant sanitary, environmental, and public health laws and rules and apply them to specific cases.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective work relationships with physicians, business proprietors, community residents, and others interested in and/or concerned with maintenance of public health standards.
- Ability to prepare clear, sound, accurate, and informative supervisory and other reports containing findings, conclusions, and recommendations.
- Ability to testify accurately in court.
- Ability to supervise the establishment and maintenance of records and files.
- Ability to effectively communicate, both orally and in writing.
- Ability to utilize various types of electronic and/or manual recording and information systems used by the agency, office, or related units.
- Ability to read, write, speak, understand, and communicate in English sufficiently to perform duties of this position. American Sign Language or Braille may also be considered as acceptable forms of communication.
- Persons with mental or physical disabilities are eligible as long as they can perform essential functions of the job after reasonable accommodation is made to their known limitations. If the accommodation cannot be made because it would cause the employer undue hardship, such persons may not be eligible.
Note
The examples of work for this title are for illustrative purposes only. A particular position using this title may not perform all duties listed in this job specification. Conversely, all duties performed on the job may not be listed.